ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photo by @renaeffendiphoto / Over the years, I have documented the plight of the more than 700,000 people displaced by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Azerbaijan in the 1990s. I found them living in miserable, inhumane conditions: some sheltered in dug-out holes meant for livestock, others squatted in abandoned train cars and industrial ruins of factories. In Azerbaijani language, "qaçqın" (refugee) became widely synonymous with "poor" and "dejected." As two decades went by, new generations of children were born into the limbo of muffled hopes that one day they’d be able to return home. For these vulnerable communities pushed to the margins of society, the pain of being uprooted by conflict became a deeply entrenched trauma that passed on to the next generations. I hope that the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh will evolve into a sustained and lasting peace that will give both sides displaced by this conflict a chance to go home and rebuild their lives. It will take years before they can rehabilitate physically and emotionally from these traumatic events. I am Azerbaijani, and it’s been very disturbing for me to observe thousands of Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh over the past month. I don’t wish them the same fate of the Azerbaijani refugees I had photographed. For generations, Azerbaijanis and Armenians have been living in peace side by side. But fueled by our respective identity crisis, this smoldering conflict is a product of two opposing nationalist narratives constructed and fed to us over the years. These narratives are damaging to our human psyche and our ability to co-exist peacefully. I hope the day will come when we can see each other not as two warring ethnicities, but as humans: friends, neighbors, business partners, relatives, just the way we used to be in the past. #Azerbaijan #Armenia #NKpeace」11月17日 2時31分